Book Clubs Column by Julie Hale

Set on a fictional Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, Louise Erdrich’s chilling novel, The Round House, focuses on a Native American boy’s efforts to make sense of the world after a brutal crime. Joe is 13 when his mother, Geraldine, is raped near a sacred structure—the round house of the book’s title. The main suspect is white. When questions involving tribal courts...

Book Clubs Column by Julie Hale

Ojibwe author Erdrich continues to chronicle life in North Dakota with her eighth novel, a sprawling historical tale of a German family set in the early 1900s. Fidelis Waldvogel comes home from World War I to marry Eva, the widow of his best friend who died in battle. Together, they make a new life in Argus, North Dakota, where Fidelis works as a butcher and forms a singing club made up of the...

Book Clubs Column by Julie Hale

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse By Louise ErdrichNo other contemporary author has illuminated and celebrated Native America quite as powerfully Erdrich. Nominated for the 2001 National Book Award, her latest novel continues the story of the North Dakota Ojibwe community she began five books ago. At the center of the narrative is Father Damien Modeste, whose surprising secret...